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Million Lines of Code - Infographic
- joering2 13y agoDoes 60 millions of lines of code of Facebook make sense? I mean I know its a large project with multiple modules, but any ideas why such an enormous codebase?
- pan69 13y agoHow are dependencies such as external libraries counted? Some programming languages will "include" code while others will link "against" external code.
- coldcode 13y agoThat last one is a hoot.
- salehenrahman 13y agoThe number of LOC is nothing to boast about in my opinion. The simpler your codebase the easier it is to maintain, the easier it is to focus on what actually matters: the end product.
- stmchn 13y agoIt also seems quite arbitrary to compare LOC's between all those products. It seems like it would vary greatly depending on the language and other factors (No idea of the metric includes comments/whitespace etc).
- bladedtoys 13y agoFirefox and Mozilla core are games?
- techprotocol 13y agoNot sure how they measure the lines of code. Are comments, headers, etc included or is it just the the code flow?
- melling 13y agoThe original Doom was under 50,000 lines of code.
- MDCore 13y agoDoes an average modern high-end car really have a hundred million lines of code?